Sub-prime lenders have grown in number, and though they compete with each other for new customers, they do so by spending money on marketing and door-to-door salespeople, not by offering lower prices.
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Prime Minister David Cameron denied the low-number of voters means the PCC role lacks a popular mandate.
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The prime-brokerage arms of investment banks also face a number of potential conflicts of interest.
They include the Foreign Minister, Silvan Shalom, the former prime minister, Simon Peres, and a number of senior business-people.
Also, the number of Americans 20 to 34, the prime apartment-renting years, will rise from 61 million now to around 65 million five years hence.
The deputy prime minister claimed his government had increased the number of jobs in Scotland - with the help and had implemented other employment schemes to alleviate problems of unemployment.
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Investors have been selling off riskier holdings, including debt issued by companies, as worries grow about the number of firms that have been impacted in the US sub-prime crisis.
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He said that the number of well-wishers who turned up outside the church in the prime minister's Co Durham constituency showed the ceremony was something people "wanted to share".
With a presidential election looming in little more than a year from now, it will help Lionel Jospin, the Socialists' present prime minister and presumed presidential candidate, keep his campaigning pledge to put an ever-increasing number of the unemployed back to work.
Obviously, if Congress goes further -- with or without a budget summit endorsement of still further defense cuts -- there is every reason to believe that the relatively small number of key prime contractors still in the defense business will decline as well.
Moussavi himself has quite a number of nasty skeletons in his closet from his years as the prime minister during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), with his brutal suppression of dissident movements, ideological purging of the universities and so on.
Cunningham notes a similar decline in the number of debtors who reached out to credit counselors during the worst days following the sub-prime crisis.
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Bear's woes will only exacerbate worries about highly-leveraged hedge funds, an increasing number of which are finding it hard to stay afloat as their prime brokers jack up margin calls.
According to the spokesman Sir Michael did not raise any objection - but this was not passed back to Number 10 as the decision had already been taken for the prime minister to go by car as this was the "easiest and quickest" way.
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